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Maya Kowalski wins millions in case against All Children’s

Maya Kowalski reacts to her family

Maya Kowalski reacts to her family’s courtroom victory on Nov. 9, 2023. (Law&Crime Network)

A Florida jury Thursday afternoon delivered substantial money justice to the surviving family members of a wife and mother who took her own life after she lost access to her daughter for nearly 90 days.

A unanimous six-person jury in Sarasota County determined Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg was liable for the incidents leading up to the January 2017 death of Beata Kowalski, 43. Also, unanimously, jurors determined the hospital had to pay the Kowalski family well over $210 million for the losses they endured.

In late 2016, then-10-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to the hospital for a debilitating condition called complex regional pain syndrome. She had suffered from the disorder since 2015 when she was 9, and the treatment that her doctors found worked best for her was ketamine therapy. But officials at the hospital balked. All Children’s staff reported Beata Kowalski for child abuse based on her suggestions and initiated a custody battle that took Maya away from her parents for 87 days. The results were disastrous.

Six days after Maya’s mother killed herself, she was reunited with her father. Beata’s widower, Jack Kowalski, filed the lawsuit. The ensuing legal battle became the basis for the popular Netflix documentary, “Take Care of Maya.” The film also cites support for Maya’s ketamine treatment – arguing that medical staff at the hospital pushed forward with the child abuse case against Beata Kowalski despite being told by her specialist that Maya would benefit from ketamine.

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